Tricol, Washed up, A Pulp Alley AAR

If your new here welcome & here's a link back to the start of the story  http://ifitwasntforone.blogspot.ie/2015/05/tricol-first-contact.html

Jack was surprised to find that he & the crew where not the only passengers on board the Storm Runner, Captain Kandahar's response when asked about this was, as your all going to the same place it didn't make seance to turn down the extra credits.

Kanadahar did however get Jack & Adele to agree to a truce for as long as they where on his ship something Jack believed would have been impossible if the other passengers had have been the Bash Street gang & despite all that had gone before Jack found that he couldn't hold a dislike for Adele Blanc-Sec.

Jack woke with a start it feel like something had rock the whole boat, the next second alarm bells where ringing out all over the boat something had exploded in the engine-room & the ship was going under fast, so fast in fact that there wasn't even time to launch the lifeboats it was every man for himself.

All a long the water's edge the two groups are taking in their surroundings.

Looking back out to sea Adele notice's what can only be a boat's mast sticking out of the water beside a large bolder, straining her eye's she make's out a dark shadow below the surface that can only be some kind of boat.

Shooting & yelling brakes out as the truce comes to an end, with each group thinking that the other one must have been behind the explosion that sank the ship. 

Jack & his trusty hound Mr Smith engage some of the Severed head guys  

Father Felix join's in & knocks mad Willie to the ground before suffering the same faith himself

Lucinda comes across some a tub of some kind & removing the lid see's what looks like a soupy goo  

Oilskin lines up a shot at Pop's

Knocking him off his feet

Olsan is now having a look at the tub trying to guess what the stuff inside is & gets blind sided by X4Y

Looks like Jack & Mr Smith have done a job on Maggie, but Numbers seems to have gotten out of Dodge

Adele starts swimming out to the wreck  

& comes under fire from the shore

Mean while mad Willie regains his feet

A lot of one's but what does it mean ?

Right it seems that Lucinda can't hit the side of a barn 

Mr Smith leaps for Willie

& they both join Felix on the sand

Looks like Olsan's a better shot then lucinda as he down's X4Y with his pump shotgun

The Doc finds a crate & try's to shoo away some rats

Oilskin goes to investigate Sevo-skull but some little thing else is also interested  

& attack's Oilskin

Adele reach her goal, that's definitely a boat down there she think's & dive's down for a better look

Jack catches up to numbers how is trying to talk to what appears to be a native beastman  

While Adele is down exploring the wreck the surfaces erupts & a terrifying sound puts fear into all that hear it  

Terrify 

Fear or not X4Y rush's Olsan

As Lucinda thinks it might be a good idea to get away from the waters edge 

& pumps some lead into Willie who she'd noticed coming up behind Jack

Jack rush's Number's but the little fellow is nimble & Jack can't land a good blow, the beastman just carries on fishing

Mr Smith comes to Olsan's aid

But X4Y is quick & lash's out  knocking Mr Smith off his feet

It does however give Olsan a chance to move out of the way

not far enough & its a double ko

Adele after finding what looks to be part of a notebook swims back to the surfaces 

& is set upon by the terror, would make a nice bag & matching boots if I can kill this thing she thinks to herself as she tries to fight it off

Which she does only to notice that she's has swam out to sea instead of near the beach 

Back on his feet once more mad Willie heads for Olsan who is still guarding the tub 

& in the battle of the shotguns it looks as if the shield was the difference 

He's behind you

To late as Olsan's world goes dark

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Adele is nearing the beach but can she get there in time

Looks like she did

Down at the other end the action continues

All this over a tub of some goo 

It's mine

No it's mine

Seen Numbers dive into the water the beastman fallow's as Jack watches from the shore not sure if he wants to go in with that thing in there

Looks like Adele didn't make it far enough up the beach & the terror snaps at her again

Hurt Adele fights on like the hero that she is

X4Y just will not give up on the goo that Olsan is insisting is his

Lucinda move towards Jack & says we need to get hold of that beastman as his knowledge of the island could be invaluable you'll have to go in after him, have you seen what is in that water ? replies Jack  

Jack takes the plunge & lands a right hook on numbers sending him below the waves, now to try to get this lad to get out of the water before that thing finishes Adele & come this way for desert things Jack

The battle of the goo goes on

Is this the end ? thankfully no as Adele brakes free & gets to safety with the papers she found on the boat, will they be worth it ?

Designer's note, Well that was a blast of a game I must say, the mission was the lagoon of terror from the PA Perilous island book, but before I go a couple of things I like to add, I had made up a couple of pieces to form a lagoon but I mustn't have shaken the dark stain enough or at all as when I went to set up the table these where a lot lighter in colour so I had to just go with a beach instead, another think is I believe I should have had a larger area of water as the distant from the shore to the wrack was maybe not enough.

The game end with the Severed Head guys holding the major plot point (3pts) while the crew of the the Hermes ended the game with two minor plot points (2pts), for those fallowing the story the beastmen found here on the island in in fact a native of Tricol & is brown in colour unlike the beastman that attacked Dunmarn who came to Tricol on board Imperil ships & are red in colour.

Well that's it for me, my thanks to Paddy for the game ( & for helping out with the xmas decorations ) & as always my thanks to you for dropping in & if you want to know what other terrors await our hero's on the perilous island be sure to keep an eye on the blog.

Tricol, Dunmarn the aftermath

A week & a day since the attack on Dunmarn & Governor Jardine addresses the house on the findings.

My fellow Senators late yesterday High Marshal Ulberexis delivered to me a report on the happenings at Dunmarn & I'm afraid it makes very unsettling reading & although we are still no wiser as to the reason for the attack by members of the beastmen race on the small town of Dunmarn, some of the findings are both alarming & frighten.

But before we get to that I would like to once again offer my condolences to the folk of Dunmarn for their lost & to reassure them that we will do all we can to try to bring those responsible to justices for this terrible crime.

There are two big points of this report & they are like I've already said both alarming & frighten, first is the fact that some of the firearms that we've recovered that where used by the beastmen in the attack are not the kind permitted for use by citizen, but even more worrying then that is these firearms do not show up on any for our records, in other words it would appear that these weapons where illegally produced.

Waiting a few moments for the murmurs in the house to die down before continuing Governor Jardine took a small sip of water.

Next is the result from a post-mortem that was carried out on a beastmen who was killed in the fighting, as the post-mortem results show that there was some very strange & as yet unknown narcotics found in the victims blood-stream, from what is known of the narcotics that have been identified it is believed that these would have heighten the levels of aggression in the user & given the manner of the attack it would leave us to believe that this cocktail of drugs was taken by all of the beastmen that took part in the attack.

I'm going to leave it at that for today my fellow Senators, you shall all receive a copy of the report & I ask that we meet again in three days time to debate these findings & what they might mean, as you are all aware nothing  like this has ever happened before in the Tricol system & I would ask you all to spend the next couple of days giving this terrible event as much consideration as you can, thank you.

Meanwhile at the same time as the Governor addressing the house far away on the moon of Abydos Panama Jack & crew where making for the Perilous island.

As always my thanks for dropping in.

        

Tricol, finding inspiration update

A little while back I put up a post on finding inspiration & how I's come across a picture in a 40K RPG book of the front of a building that I want to base my severed head building on, if you thought ok Franko's lost the plot, that ok I forgive you as my wife thinks I lost it years back lol.

Well this post is really just a little update on my progress on the severed head building & to say I'm happy with it is a major understatement, the building was one of those things that you think wow that would be cool but in the back of your mind there's this little voice saying are you sure & do you really think you can pull this off ?

I think I've dumbfounded that voice on this one & while it's not yet finished the parts that I wondered about are done & I love it pure & simple, it captures all the goofyness that I wanted be yet is still on the right side of believable.

If you don't think something like this is believable have a look at the buildings in the link below, they just might change your mind.
https://www.google.ie/search?q=unusual+buildings&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ2fO78brJAhUBkA8KHUEwCIkQsAQIIQ&biw=1280&bih=647

Bet you that took you back a bit ? sometimes life is stranger then everything else, back to my little building the cards are not set up right yet as I need to do some kink of bill board to mount them on, but I just want to give you the idea, I also have to finish the two ground floor windows at the front, plus some stuff on the roof, I might even put some king of advertisement board on one of the side walls.

That it for this post & I will do a post on the finished building, but until then as always my thanks for dropping in.

Setting's, The art of illusion

With models as with anything in life what we see is a very big part of what we believe, ok but we kind of know that already Frank I hear you say & I agree that yes you do, but what this post is about is looking at why with models & if your trying to get things looking as right as you can (in your games or on blogs or whatever) getting the setting right is so very important.

I'm going to start off by giving you a link below to the blog of Major Guiscard, this guy is a master of what I'm talking about, as you'll see if you pop over & look at the invitation post, go on I'll still be here when you get back & we'll talk about what you seen.
http://govgensectorsix.blogspot.ie/

Your back I hope as I know it can be very easy to get drawn into the doings of sector six, but on the off chance that you did come back we'll carry on, the post is about an invitation to the up coming Princess Ball, so how did the Major draw us into what he was telling us ?
He started by telling us we where at the home of some well to do & then showed us a picture of 3 models with a floor a wall & to columns or supports whatever you'd call them, now its the picture that creates the illusion of grandeur.

First of all were give the impression that it a very big house, owned by someone very rich, what makes me say he rich ? easy one of the models is a butler, & yet this is only a picture of an very small area, to complete his illusion he then showed us a picture of a invitation, all very cleverly done I think you would agree, but the setting had to be right for us to believe.

Right lets give it a try & see if I can pull it off shall we ? here we go.
Tonight  High Marshal Ulberexis would like to address the citizens of Tricol from inside Government House.

Stop stop stop you scream that's picture doesn't look like the inside of Government house & yes your dead right so lets try it again shall we ?
Tonight  High Marshal Ulberexis would like to address the citizens of Tricol from inside Government House.

 Happier this time round ? I hope so & yet apart from podium  that he's standing behind all I did was change what he standing on & what's behind him, a small area of flooring & timber panelling wall & bingo the illusion is complete.

The floor is from a fantasy movement tray, I was going to use a cheap chess board but when I went to buy one the shop was sold out of them.

 
The wall is just balsa wood on a piece of cork with two props to make it stand, simple & yet when you put it all together.

Some times it's only little things you need to do this, like the butler in the invitation to make us thing this is a wealthy family.

Well that's it for this time, as always my hanks for dropping in & remember it just an illusion.
 

Tricol, Braking news Trouble in Dunmarn

For over 200 years the different races with in the Tricol system have lived in peace, tonight that peace was broken with running battles on the streets of Dunmarn between mutants & beastmen, reports coming out of Dunmarn would indicate that the trouble was started by a large number of beastmen, who set upon the small town mainly populated by mutants.

Dunmarn just before the attack. 

The beastmen pour out of the jungle setting fire to the first building they come across.

Trouble this way comes 

Hearing the noise of gunfire & shouts the citizens come on to the streets 

Horrified they grab anything they might use as a weapon 

With no apparent motive for the attack which left many dead & injured & a number of buildings damaged, High Marshal Ulberexis has ordered a full investigation in to the events, but most worrying must be the reports of how well armed the beastmen where.

The beastmen charge any local's that cross their path  

While Ugo-Cal leader of this gang looks down from his high point

Out gunned & out numbered the mutant's put up the best fight they can

As the fighting continues another building goes up in smoke  

With the election's to take place in the next couple of months this will not be news that Governor Jardine will have wanted to hear & will be an issue that Senator Von Bittner his main rival is sure to bring up at the next meeting in the parliamentary house.

The fighting like the fires spreads through the small town

Well armed there is just no stopping the beastmen 

Yet another building & a car are set alight 

At the cantina the fighting is heavy but there's just to many beastmen

& the window is smashed in 

before this building is also set in flames

Main street at the high of the attack

Backed by the powerful business tycoon Airy Shoebridge for the up coming election's, Senator Von Bittner has said he will be demanding answers as to what costed the event's of  tonight & as to what will be done to make sure that the likes of this doesn't happen again.

Ugo-Cal bellows out a roar & the beastman vanish back into the jungle

Leaving the town of Dunnarn 

& it citizens wounded & ruined 

He's also likely to come down hard on High Marshal Ulberexis who is the man responsible for law & order on  Thalassa, something that the Senator think's the Government should have more power over, If indeed the stories about the beastmen been so well armed turns out to be true, it will rise serious questions as the manufacture of arm's is something that is very heavily controlled, while every citizen has the right to arm's there is strict regulations on what type they may have, something else that the High Marshal is responsible for controlling under the right to bear arm's act.

Designer note's, while Panama Jack is far removed from the events above if you've been fallowing a long you might remember the events on the asteroid http://ifitwasntforone.blogspot.ie/2015/06/tricol-in-asteroid-field-pulp-alley.html in which Jack & the crew removed (stole) a few creates which happened to contain weapons.

It seems that something sinister is a foot in the Tricol system but who is behind it all ? & can the council of Marshal's get to the bottom of things & so prevent further happens like what just happened in Dunmarn, to find out keep an eye on if it wasn't for ones & as always my thanks for dropping in.
 



  

Got the blues

It's that time of the year that is for me at least not hobby friendly but I'm still getting some stuff done, I'm finding painting up all different types of things to be like a breath of fresh air, so I'm not coming down with the blues unlike some of the lads below.

I'm finder that a lot of the older GW model's seem to have a lot more character 

& that was definitely the case with this model, I've still to decide on some type of banner for him to be holding, maybe do an add for a fast food joint.  

MC Hammer he can't.

I didn't want to go green with these boys so went with a very dark blue instead & am more then happy the way they've turned out.

How I even came to own some of these models I've no idea

but am more then happy that I do.

Leaving the blues behind we this lad, I want with a gray robe as I think the face on the model give the impression of misery 

& I wanted to try to highlight that fact so what better then gray, the flames are not done overly great, but as I've seen a lot better painters then me have trouble doing flames I can live with it. 

Last on the post is this chap how I think will make a great bouncer on the door of a certain club that's in the works at the moment

I think it's a WMH model but I' not 100% on that.

I really need a better way of doing pictures as the detail on the models can't be seen, where as I see other post stuff & the detailing is more clear then if you where holding it in your hand.
Well that's it for this post as always my thanks for dropping in:-)